71% of voters approved of not attacking iran. just 14% disapprove. imagine that. avoiding far off wars is popular. can you win an election on that. we will be back monday. have a great night. sean hannity is next. ♪ ♪ >> hi, welcome to hannity tonight marks the end of yet a major week of accomplishments for the president and the trump administration. two historic new trade deals, a record-setting economy, major progress on the border wall. safety, security, and prosperity for all americans, nobody can dispute any of this. none of it matters to today's radicalized democratic socialist party. today the president summed it up perfectly during an event with college football national championship lsu. take a look. >> just told the coach we don't normally do this but i'm doing it for this team. anybody would like to come with me to the oval office, we will take pictures in the

oval. it's a special place. we will take pictures behind the resolute desk. it's been there a long time. a lot of presidents. some good, some not so good. you have got a good one now. [laughter] even though they are trying to impeach the son of bitch. can you believe that? >> sean: democrats know the president will be vindicated at the end of the senate's trial. they don't care. they are more interested in finding an outlet for psychotic anti-trump raid. hurts them running in 2020. on wednesday nancy pelosi all smiles, there she is, literally signing off on her b.s. partisan impeachment articles. happening out commemorative gold pens with her autograph on them and taking, well, pictures with anybody who wanted them. it was her crowning and only achievement basically as house speaker. that very same day democrats tried to derail the senate impeachment trial with a last-minute smear campaign disguised as important new evidence. the exact same tactic they

used, remember, against brett kavanaugh. did the same thing. now, by the way. new evidence that joe and hunter were innocent and that the prosecutor that was investigating zero experience hunter was corrupt. oh, that's new evidence? oh, great. glad they determined all of that right before their very eyes and that night the left anointed a brand new savior. this is michael avenatti 2.0 a man out on bail charged with felony finance fraud hiding get this you can't make it up a million-dollar payment from the country of russia. like i said, avenatti 2.0. 254 appearances for avenatti in one year. just like their love affair with the currently imprisoned attorney, democrats and the mob are willing to overlook massive credibility issues. run with it. because that guy, yes, being charged with serious crimes, lev parnas feeds into anti-trump hysteria. same people lie talking then

are lying to you now. same cast of characters. now, we will break this down in detail coming up. and, of course, just beginning to scratch the surface of jampacked news cycle. fake news cnn they found time to spend an entire day whining about republican senator martha mcsally. how dare she call one of their reporters a liberal hack. liberal hacks one idiot calling it a chilling attack. mob and the media, so sensitive. democratic allies truly live in this alternative relate. buckle up. because well, if this get their way, well, in the come days, only get worse. in the days and weeks ahead, they want to drag this country through the mud and now the president has a chance to fight back. finally. he has now assembled the legal team to represent his case in the senate including white house counsel pat cipollone, along with the president's personal attorney, that would be jay

sekulow former independent counsel ken starr that led the investigation that led to the impeachment of former president bill clinton. starr is joined by former florida attorney general pam bondi and two other experienced lawyers. we know about robert ray and jane raskin. harvard law professor alan dershowitz will play a vital role leading the constitutional oral arguments against impeachment. the president's legal time will easily destroy the democrats' two bogus articles of impeachment because this entire impeachment charade is nothing but a political smear campaign. democrats, well, they are going to try to drag the trial on for as long as humanly possible. they want to slow-walk this sham schiff show and build the intensity and insanity so they will have a major crescendo of conspiratorial drama. they will try to enter into evidence well, new things. they will try to demand that new witnesses testify. they are going to try to demand that new investigations, based on new evidence, magically turns up

at the last second be introduced from the guy that is indicted. they are going to do anything and everything to derail the president's forthcoming acquittal. but their achilles heel is no other than this guy quid pro quo joe and of course his son zero experience hunter biden who made millions and millions and millions from a corrupt ukrainian oil and gas company all while his father was spearheading the obama administration's policy on ukraine. vice president biden even leveraged a billion of your tax dollars in order to get a ukrainian prosecutor fired, son of a b., he did. why did he want the prosecutor fired? he was investigating his zero-experienced son. what company would ever pay somebody millions if they have zero experience? none. any of you ever get that deal? now, that is the very real corruption. very core of this impeachment charade. democrats, you want to draw this out, go down this road, well, now it becomes a very dangerous game. and the senate it now

officially the new schiff sham show. and by the way just like the russia collusion hoax and the kavanaugh smear and every other con job from the radical left the trump-hating left, we know how this story will end. complete vindication. joining us now with more, two people who will play a very important role in the upcoming trial, including the author of a case against removing trump, harvard law professor alan dershowitz former florida attorney general pam bondi. good to see you both. pam bondi, let's start with you. let's get a preview if we can of what you see, how this all goes down when it begins on tuesday. >> well, sean, and it's an honor to work with all of these great people and i can tell you pat cipollone, jay sekulow, they were ready to go a month ago. they are ready to go last week. they are ready to go today and next week. we are ready to get this behind us. because, as you said, the president has done absolutely nothing wrong. if they had articles of impeachment of an alleged

crime they should are been presented in the house. if the president was a clear and present danger, really, that should have been sent over prior, way prior to christmas. remember pelosi's comment. yet, they held it because they have nothing and they still have nothing. so what we are going to have here, sean, is a fair trial. and we are very excited to put this behind the president, get this behind him as soon as possible because he did nothing wrong. they have sent over the flimsiest of flimsy evidence if you can even call it that. and so i think this is going to go very quick. and i think it's going to be be put behind the president. as you said, while he is signing the china deal, one of the greatest deals in our lifetime with china, what is she doing? signing the impeachment articles and giving out ceremonial pens? that's shameful. that's nothing. trying to impeach a president should not be a day of joy and celebration. it should be somber and, frankly, shameful for all of

them. >> sean: professor dershowitz i know you are going it deal with the constitutionality about this. clear about the role solely in the house's power, their realm to impeach. they have done that now they have house managers chosen. they will present their case. trials to be held in the senate. we have the presiding judge will be the supreme court chief justice john roberts. question is, why does some republicans want to somehow do the house's job if they didn't do a good job which we know they didn't do a good job and this is a nothing case? >> well, my job next week will be to present the constitutional case against impeachment. a case that i have been presents on your show, and in two books and 25 articles. i will not deal with the nitty gritty of the facts and whether there should be witnesses or not. but just from a personal point of view the constitution approach, which was suggested in prior impeachments was always to have the facts presented to

the house of representatives, cross-examination, you then get a report. and the report is what is put on trial. the one thing that's critically clear is that if the democrats are allowed to call witnesses, president trump's lawyers will be allowed to call witnesses. they will determine initially whether the witnesses are relevant. on cnn all day they have been saying today that hunter biden wouldn't be relevant. but, of course he would be relevant if witnesses were called because the issue is was he corrupt? did the president legitimately have an interest in ferreting out corruption including the corruption of hunter biden. so i think if the democrats begin to open the door, they will regret it. also, it will put the trial off for months, maybe even longer than that they will call bolton. bolton will want to testify. the president will invoke executive privilege and then the senate will have to take that case to court. and the court will have to decide either on a blanket way or question by question

way whether or not bolton has the right to answer these questions. you remember, he doesn't get to make the decision. it's made by the put in the first instance and then the courts. >> sean: john bolton says it's the president's executive privilege. he gets to invoke it. the president said he will invoke it like all prior presidents have. you know all the instances in the obama years. so the question is and he says well, i want to testify anyway, that would then have to be litigated separately, professor? >> absolutely. now, there are two ways you can litigate it. one you can make a motion to the chief justice. i think he would defer to the senate. and then the issue, if the senate votes, they will probably agree that it's executive privilege. then the senate probably could take it to the courts and seek to have a redetermines in the courts. but, it would take forever. remember, the democrats said the reason they didn't bring the bolton subpoena to the courts is it would take so much time. now they want to do it again which will make even more time and postpone the senate

trial for possibly months until they get a definitive decision from the united states supreme court. so they are trying to have it both ways. >> sean: pam, where do you weigh in on the witness issue and the executive privilege issue because those are now front and center and i do agree with the professor there has got to be reciprocity here. we are going to have witnesses. i would like to hear from the congenital liar, adam schiff. i think he is compromised in this case. >> hunter biden. >> sean: hunter biden. do you know any company in florida when you were attorney general that paid people millions of dollars that had absolutely serious experience? i have never heard that. >> no. absolutely zero experience. sean, you know, professor dershowitz is of course right on this. first of all, this should been handled in the house it wasn't. they punted. they want the senate to do their dirty work. enough to they can't get a redo and that's what they are trying to get in the u.s. senate. executive privilege is very important, not only for president trump but for every future president.

can you imagine if that got waived for every future president when national security issues that that just could be said and talked about all the time? >> it would be horrible for country for centuries to come. if they want witnesses bring it on. we will have plenty of witnesses to call. if they want witnesses we will have them too. >> the reason i have agreed to do this over the great objection of my family members and many, many friends, one of my relatives wrote to me today and said will you please change your last name. the. >> sean: i think alan hannity sounds pretty good. you can take my name. [laughter] >> the reason is i'm concerned about future presidents. this will weaken the presidency if this is a precedent. it will make impeachment a weaponized tactic to be used any time a president who is controversial faces a house that has a majority on the other side. that's not what the framers had in mind. i will lay out the debates

over the constitutional convention. lay out what happens, why these framers picked thee four words treason, bribery. high crimes and misdemeanors. i want to persuade some democrats that this is not an impeachable offense and have them vote. not to impeach and not to remove the president. ounce. >> sean: all right. professor dershowitz, former attorney general pam bondy. thank you both. ongoing impeachment sag a go will have major negative ramifications for the upcoming election. i don't believe for the president. several democratic candidates are now being dragged off the campaign trail in the height of the primary season in order to attend the senate's trial. are you have socialist bernie sanders complaining that he would much rather be in iowa. sanders, along with his good friend, you lied about me, senator elizabeth warren and senator amy klobuchar will now have to spend their time in washington, d.c. at their day jobs. longer the senate trial lasts, the longer these

three candidates will be off the trail. for what? president trump will be vindicated. articles of impeachment are bogus. recently trey gowdy pointed out the president's single piece of evidence is the transcript of the very call in question. joining us now to explain fox news contributor tray gowdy. we know what we have. we have the transcript. more importantly, they never talked about aid in that call. would you do us a favor because you know, we hear about election interference and separate and apart from russian interference we know ukrainian court determined so. politico wrote about it in january of 2017. so my question is how do you see this going down and where do you see legally the best arguments for the president? >> well, he is going to be acquitted. the question is how many republican senators caught in crossfire multiple votes by witnesses. shawfer, i never thought this was about removing donald trump from office. i think it's about removing

cory gartner and martha mcsally and joni ernst. the best evidence president trump has is the transcript itself. we don't need to know how anybody else felt that was on the call. we don't need to know what they thought. we have the transcript. it was the second call between president trump and president zelensky. if president trump were really hell bent on conditioning aid on investigating the bidens, why did he not bring it up in the first call? not a word in the first call. the second call is because rick perry wanted him and bugged him to call zelensky again. need i to do us a favor. who is us? he answers the question, our country has been through a lot. who brought up rudy giuliani? it was president zelensky, noit president trump. who brought up what if it is an impeachable offense to the have attorney general of the united states calling about potential evidence and improprietor.

god to agency going to be in a lot of trouble. >> sean: what's your perception of lev parnas 2.0. foreign minister of ukraine said don't trust this guy. we don't trust that guy. being charged by the southern disight of new york. trying to hide a million-dollar payment from of all countries, russia. yet he is the new michael avenatti. >> new michael connie or john dean, the democrats are on a role now with either calling convicted felons or people about to be convicted felons. look, i actually watched the interviews. the headlines are much more dramatic than the interview. the headline picks out one of his four answers to the same question. take mike pence. did mike pence know about it? absolutely he knew about it. then three seconds later it's improper that he didn't know about it. and then three seconds later well it's possible. that's great if you are picking out a headline for the hill or politico.

it's a lousy witness if you are calling them beach is hearing. >> >> can u. going to call parnas and make his credibility and believe it or not in issue, then let's call 20 people to bleem led parnas. now up to 21 witnesses. you can do -- any witness that schiff wants to call. then republicans have the right to say, you know what credibility, believability of this witness is at issue. let's call a bunch of witnesses that have an opinion whether or not you should believe them. it could go on past the election if they want to play that game. >> sean: what about the two issues we are talking about with pam bondi and professor dershowitz and that of course being executive privilege. whole issue constitutional clear. this is your wheel house, you are a former prosecutor. and the constitution graves the soul power to impeach the spouse. they have impeached him. now make your case why would senate republicans want to try and do the house's job when they have failed pretty

spectacular live in my opinion? >> they shouldn't. and i hope my friends on the republican side will ask adam schiff why should we call witnesses that you didn't think were important enough to call yourself? if mike pompeo was an incidence cybil witness, why did you not call him, not to go to court. not sort out privilege. on the issue of privilege, sean, every privilege that exists keeps you have access information. attorney-client. every briflg keeps from you accessing information. we value the relationship more than we do the information, which is why we have privileges. if adam schiff wanted mulvaney and giuliani and bolton. he had months and months to go to court and get a ruling. he doesn't want that he wants cory and martha and joni ernst and thom tillis to vote on these witnesses. he knows he is not going to get a conviction. he wants to take the senate so the second donald trump

term beginning in 2021 is neutered of because chuck schumer is the majority leader. if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, nothing can share you, sean. >> sean: what do they want to do then? put another 13 million americans on food stamps? they want to bribe the mullahs with more money in iran? good point, trey gowdy thank you. >> yes, sir. >> sean: go ahead, sir. >> you see the new point employee is prince was involved, i wonder who would be third in line for the presidency. oh, yeah. >> sean: that's called the nightmare, you know, horror show. >> armageddon. green green thank you, mccormick. martha mcsally calls out fake news cnn yesterday. the fake news network are outraged. senator mcsally is not apologizing nor should she. she is next.

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>> live from america's news headquarters i'm trace gallagher. two prominent lawyers making the switch from defending the president on television to now becoming part of his legal team for the upcoming impeachment trial. ken starr, former independent counsel who investigated president clinton and alan dershowitz the prominent harvard law professor have agreed to become trump's legal advocates. leading the deference team will become trump's personal lawyer jay sekulow and white house counsel pat cipollone. pentagon confirming that 11 americans were injured in last week's iranian missile attack on two bases in iraq. this news contradicting earlier states that nobody was hurt. iran's supreme leader making a very rare public appearance saying the strike deals a blow to america as a global super power.

remember, as news breaks out, we will break in. i'm trace gallagher in new york. now back to sean hannity. ♪ ♪ >> sean: animosity between the fake news media conservatives is now reaching a fevered pitch. last night we played tape of senator martha mcsally shutting down a fake news cnn reporter. in case you missed it it's a good moment. take a look. >> senator mcsally should the senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial. >> you are a liberal hack. i'm not going to talk to you. >> you are not going to comment. >> you are a liberal hack. >> sean: following the exchange fake news cnn was thrown into a unhinged melted down. take a look. >> wow, if you can't answer that question, maybe you shouldn't have been elect you had to the senate. but, oh, sorry, martha mcsally actually wasn't elected. >> it just demeans the office. >> her behavior was disgraceful. >> did the right thing she would personally call you and say i'm sorry is an

awful, awful thing that she did. >> it's harmful to democracy. >> unbecoming. >> it's a nice word. >> unbelief. at the very least that's what it was. >> when they tell the news media to go away they are telling you at home to go away. when they won't answer your questions that's not about us that's about you. >> sean: senator, i applaud what you did. i will tell you why. they lie daily. they lie constantly. they went for three years all in, trump, russia, russia, russia. russia. breathless hysteria. daily. every second, minute, hour. they got so much wrong and there is so sanctimonious that i actually think in their twisted brains they think they are a news channel. they are not a news channel. they are state run radical leftist socialist it. >> v. so you say i'm not answering your liberal question. good for you. i don't blame you. >> thanks, sean, yeah, their response has just been ridiculous as you saw. i think there was also

another clip where they said something like i can't imagine anyone ever voting for martha mcsally. my response is why would ghin ever want to watch your channel unless they are trapped in an airport in a blizzard. it's been amazing to me. >> sean: fox needs to fix that. we need to be in the airports. did you go in an airport you are stuck, no foreign countries are stuck with elm this. wow, they must think we're a country that we're not if you are watching them. >> i know, sean, i actually thought they understood that they were liberal, that they were a part of kind of helping with the democrat agenda on a daily basis you see whatever the democrat talking points are are the talking points in the lcial ministry maybe they checked their journalism objectivity at the door. what's fascinating in response is 2 it seems like they think they are neutral. they think they are objective. that is more troubling. just delusional how they

have responded to this. you know, never mind their hyperbolic words about thinking who he did she just have a bad day? was she emotional? no, i was a fighter pilot. >> this was a choice i made. did i not crumble under their pressure. i have felonies 8-10s in impact. i called a liberal a liberal and for whatever reason they couldn't handle it. senator. >> sean: senator good for you. glad you are not backing down. sad moment for fake news when jake tapper actually had to call out the democrats. i have got to give fake jake some drit here and his fake news ceilings for taking et word of lev parnas the new avenatti. >> under indictment for campaign finance charges. the foreign minister of ukraine told cnn christiane nikpour he doesn't trust. democrats acting as if this

guy is the second coming of theodore roosevelt. >> sean: good line. by the way you did forget that he also is now being looked into, taking a million dollars and not reporting it to russia. then you have lawrence o'donnell. i met lawrence o'donnell at the conspiracy channel msdnc. he reviewed how the fake news media truly and in many ways believes all of this nonsense. take a look. >> cnn, which is sort of -- we're recall playing it down the middle, except we hate trump. >> no, they don't. 1/3 of the people on their payroll love trump. you are guaranteed on any hour of cnn to minimum one third of the programming will be supportive of trump. someone on their payroll saying here's why trump's right. >> yeah, well, they bring someone on to do that. >> yeah. they used to have -- their hosts don't do that. >> their host don't that's

why trump wants you to watch cnn instead of msnbc because he knows on msnbc there will be no one defending him because we don't bring on liars. >> no one defending him. everyone is a liar. oh. wow. sweeping with a broad brush there lawrence? maybe ahead of yourself in the hyperbole department. he hasn't seen the tape of cnn star reporter that would be fake news acosta yesterday. he was making a total fool of himself in a sad attempt to play gotcha with the president. by the way, lawrence, we hope you are watching. >> i don't know i never had a conversation that i remember with him. i certainly let me just tell you just have to take a look at the polls, quiet. >> sean: here now with reaction the hill's joe concha media observer, how wrong on a scale of 1 to 10 were fake news cnn and msdnc the conspiracy channel when it came to russia?

>> well, you are don't have to ask me, sean, you can just look at the muller report and see there was no collusion between russians. we were told mueller was the bible. >> three beers almost nonstop we got him we got him we dot him. the next question is how much of the abuse you have power let's see, dirty dossier, premeditated fraud on a fisa court. lack of candor, comey and mccabe. the clinton -- oh, subpoenaed emails destroyed. how much of that coverage did they get right? >> well, remember, sean, the dossier that you speak of would not be in the public domain if not for buzzfeed and cnn. every news outlet in washington and new york was pitched that dossier and every other news organization objected it with those two exceptions

and that's how we got to the fisa warrants you are talking about. they are partly responsible for the russia investigation happening. >> sean: is it any different what we saw michael after note going 250 in a year. do you see the same thing play out with lev march necessary? a guy that is well under indictment for a number of things. >> yeah. and he played jake tapper before and good for jake being for not following the high for the sake of following the hide's. he is a perfect individual to challenge. is he basically a bad michael avenatti sequel. the potential of impeachment witnesses. everything he says should be treated as gospel an gossip andt gospel. you would think after avenatti we would not go down that road. we are seeing it and now the american people know what's

un. that they used to because no one trusts the messenger anywhere. >> >> joe concha, thank you. things are getting nasty between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. sent our owner to find out what's going on with the homeless crisis in that state's liberal city. hint, it's just like san francisco, l.a., chicago, and lawrence has previously visited. stay with us. ♪ patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu.

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>> sean: as the 2020 race no signs of the feud calming down. bernie is willing to play dirty in an attempt to, quote, hillarize.

open things up for quid pro quo with democrats reportedly no longer believing his campaign will self-destruct even though quid pro quo joe continues making unbelievable gaffes like thinking robert beto bozo owe o'rourke is latino, take a look. >> going to be latinos in my cabinet. guarantee you there will be latinos in my white house. and both of them are qualified. >> sean: well, one person who seems to be taking notice of all the turmoil in the democratic party is hillary clinton who appears to be leaving the door open yet again to jump into the race. listen carefully to what she says in the trailer for her new docu series about who else? herself. >> as long as she has been in public life, there have been these ups and downs, you know, be our champion, go away. >> you want to make a difference. you want to have an impact. well then you have got to get in the arena.

>> sean: joining us now to react to the 2020 political news. charlie hurt, louie gohmert. all right, congressman gohmert. i don't see anybody and i will quote van jones and al sharpton. they didn't see anybody in that debate that can beat donald trump know have you schiff sham show. go through this nonsense. then you have got these weak candidates. who do you think eamerican airlines. who would be the toughest if any for donald trump? >> well, you remember 2016, the dnc and the clinton campaign worked together to prevent the same bernie sanders from getting the nomination. it sounds like they are trying to prevent that and warren, they are going it prevent these senators from having a shot at getting the nod from the dnc. and look at the impeachment. they are talking about the democrats are talking about adding witnesses to drag it

out. who does that keep from getting the nomination? bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, keeps them tied up, gives a better shot to poor low energy joe and also maybe if hillary wants to get back, in it will help her again. >> what about this exchange, charlie hurt, that took place after the debate the other night, you know, you called me a liar. well, one of them is lying because one says it happened. the other says it didn't happen. clearly the fake news cnn moderator sided with warren. >> yeah. and as i recall, i think they both called one another liars. but and it was kind of funny because, of course, it was the most interesting part of the debate. and it occurred after the debate was over. yeah, no, i think that what we are seeing right now and what we are seeing right there is the fact that elizabeth warren realizes what the rest of the democratic party realizes, you know, the party poobahs and what hillary clinton probably realizes is that all the energy is with

bernie sanders. and i think that mr. gohmert is exactly right. i think that dnc will do everything in their power to do what hillary clinton did last time. they are going to -- and if it goes to a brokered convention. they will bring back hillary if they have to. anything they will do anything to keep bernie sanders from getting the nomination. i don't agree with anything bernie sanders says. but, he got screwed the last time. they stole the nomination from him last time. and the reason they don't like him is because they -- and, again, i don't like him but or anything he stands for but they can't control him. >> sean: there is not a dime's worth of difference between frankly the two of them. let's go back to that moment, again, you are right, the most interesting part of the debate when the debate ended. watch. >> it was. [applause] >> i think you called me a liar on national tv? >> what? >> i think you called me a liar on national tv? >> let's not do it right now. you want to have that discussion, we will have that discussion. you called me a liar.

you told me -- all right. let's not do it. >> i don't want to get in the middle of it i just want to say hi, bernie. >> good. okay. okay. >> sean: not exactly a friendly moment. can i see you having that moment. but, seriously, not much difference between them. >> no. there really isn't. there is not much difference. i mean, you know, let's face it, bernie is a marxist and he has been taking his honeymoon over there and there are lots of marxists in the democratic party. they don't want the public to realize that. >> what do you think? how does this end up, charlie hurt? >> and the other part of it though, this is where -- i think that two candidates are different. bernie sanders actually believes in all of this stuff. he is a communist and he has been his entire adult life. elizabeth warren is a fakeer. she is a fraud. everything she says is a lie. i'm not saying that she doesn't believe some crazy things. i think she probably does.

but, i think that that authenticity is why bernie sanders has that sort of momentum within the democratic party. and it's pretty scary that's their opposition party. >> sean: all right. thank you both. pretty interesting times. all right. up next, the hannity investigative report. liberal cities in crisis. every liberal city run by liberals for decades. guess what, they are the worst cities to live. in that includes the one liberal city in texas known as austin. we sent our own 2020 correspondent on the ground, lawrence jones as h to see whats really going on. capital of the lone star state. you will want to see it ahead.

♪ >> sean: now not only are democrats attacking the rule 6 law on capitol hill they are also continuing to cripple our major cities.

for decades liberal run cities with their liberal, radical socialist weak on crime policies. we recently sent our own lawrence jones, our 2020 correspondent on the ground to austin, texas to explore the worsening homeless crisis there like in l.a. and san francisco and chicago and new york. take a look. >> austin, texas is known for its great food and live music. the capital of the lone star state was recently voted the number one place to live in america for the third year in row but austin has a growing problem like so many other big liberal cities around the country, austin's homelessness crisis is spiraling out of control. >> do you believe that there is a crisis in austin, a homeless crisis? >> i believe there is a crisis in austin, yes. >> we have a lot of homeless and people in austin, texas, just like they do in california. >> is it as bad for you here? you see feces on the street?

needles, drug use? tell me what have you seen since have you been in austin? >> a lot of homeless people, a lot. >> back in june austin city council members lifted a ban preventing camping and public places that created influx of homeless people sleeping in downtown sidewalks and under the overpass. robert, how did you end up hire? >> because in houston they throw new jail for being homeless. up here they don't mess with you. >> so you came from houston to austin because they don't mess with you in austin? >> they don't. they leave you alone. the cops give you water. they give you food. it comes from everywhere. because everybody knows they don't mess with you here. >> would it be safe to say that austin has created an environment is that is friendly to the homeless population. >> yes, sir. >> how long have you been in austin. >> 30 years. >> the homeless crisis, when did it come here. >> it has always been here to a certain degree. recently really kind of showed its ugly head. i think the last two years

it's gotten really as progressively gotten worse. >> when you say worse, what do you see? >> we are seeing camps like we have across the street. every underpass downtown is full of 60 to 80 folks living under the underpass. they are on the street aggressively attacking citizens, panhandling. >> leaders and republican texas governor greg abbott haven't seen eye to eye on how to fix the homeless crisis in austin. in fact, the republican governor has had some harsh criticism for the austin city leaders in the recent months for their failure to tackle the crisis. >> the city needs to realize that their ordinance that they have passed are creating a community danger to all involved, not just us but the homeless themselves. it just is a breeding ground for drugs and violence. >> a recent fatal stabbing at the hands of a homeless man at an austin shopping plaza heighten the the issue

tweet when all facts are revealed i bet you will learn that the killer was a homeless man with prior arrests. if so austin's reckless homeless policy puts lives in danger to murders like this. >> he went to a bus table, a little cart where dirty dishes are. he picked up a coffee mug and he took the mug and slammed it into the back of my best friend's head. >> he then leaves from the scene, goes across the street to free bird, and stabs two people? >> he got a knife from his pack, apparently. he stabbed one man to death. he stabbed another man who is still seriously injured. >> governor abbott has had enough. if the wake of the stabbings, he has directed the texas department of public safety to increase patrolling in the downtown area. >> what you have seen so far affects you coming back to austin? >> probably. >> if it continues to be a

problem, do you leave austin? >> man, unfortunately, i have, again, been here 30 years and love this city with all my heart. i have so many memories. if it gets worse, you know, i have talked to my family about that issue. yes. >> sean: here with reaction author of "witch-hunt" gregg jarrett along with "wall street journal" columnist fox news contributor kimberley strassel. kim, we have sent lawrence to san francisco twice. people shooting up all over the place. defecating in the streets. urinating all over the place. it's a mess, oracle pulled out $60 million worth of investment time that they spend there. then you have l.a. we have gone to l.a. then we have been to chicago. we have been to baltimore. here's my question. big cities, all the same pattern. they have the most crime, most drug use, and liberal policies have done, what for the people? >> yeah, and here's the thing that they also have in common. huge homeless problems which

are of their own making. that's the thing that makes the austin story so sad. is that homelessness is real. it's a problem. but there are cities that go about it in a better way and cities that go about it in a failed way. austin looked out there and it purposefully chose to mimic the actions of l.a. and san francisco. they legalize panhandling. legalize staying on the street. legalize camping. this didn't become an issue over night. it became an issue for austin in a space of weeks. so there is your direct connection. the policies are what causes the problem. >> sean: i got to be honest. i look at all of this. they are not helping people. it was amazing in san francisco where all of this is like centered. all the drug use, all the urination, all the defecation. it's made it unlivable for the residents. one mile in one direction is nancy pelosi multi-million-dollar gated community and a mile in the other direction is nancy pelosi's office.

i don't see nancy pelosi going to her millionaire friends and saying hey, why don't we help these people that desperately need help and build a shelter and get them food and drug counseling and a bed and clothes or whatever they need? showers? >> nancy pelosi doesn't really care. i mean, you know, she spends most of her time in washington, d.c. trying to impeach president trump. meanwhile, the city that i used to live in, san francisco, once, you know, pristine and beautiful and clean is now a filthy mess. unsanitary conditions, needles, defecation on the streets. and homeless people everywhere and it's not just a health danger, it's a public safety issue as lawrence's story in austin just pointed out those are stories in homeless encampments everywhere. stabbings and murders. and, you know, i agree with kimberly, there are some cities that have done it correctly. they have passed ordinances. they make it illegal to live out on the streets in public parks if there's available

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